Reflections From a Murky Pond

As The Commercial Appeal reports it, some two dozen or so Tennessee TEA Party supporters want the state’s history curriculum changed.  Specifically, they want slavery and issues with the Native American tribes downplayed as compared to how they’re handled currently.

No portrayal of minority experience in the history which actually occurred shall obscure the experience or contributions of the Founding Fathers, or the majority of citizens, including those who reached positions of leadership.

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The thing we need to focus on about the founders is that, given the social structure of their time, they were revolutionaries who brought liberty into a world where it hadn’t existed, to everybody — not all equally instantly — and it was their progress that we need to look at.

As one would expect, the MSM has made a lot of this request to the Tennessee legislature and, as one would also expect, the Liberals and their minority tenants are frothing at the mouth over it.

But are the requests of these TEA Partiers requests for historical revisionism or merely for a restoration of the curriculum as it was before the oikophobic Liberals corrupted the school systems with their own pernicious form of anti-American revisionism?

I know what the history curriculum was when I was in school and I know it didn’t hide the fact that the Founding fathers were slaveholders. It also didn’t make that, or any other societal flaw, the focus of the classes either.

That’s not, however, how history is taught in most states these days. The Liberals got control over the curriculum years ago and shifted it to focus on the negatives instead of the achievements of Americans. I can’t say for sure though that this is case in Tennessee or, if it is, how egregious the current curriculum is.

Restoration or revision? Frankly, I don’t know. Either seems possible.

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The Democrat party’s choice of Debbie Wasserman-Schultz as the Chair of the Democratic National Committee was an “interesting” one. She manages to combine Far Left ideology, gross stupidity, and a fondness for speaking out loud into a sum that is far, far less of value or merit than even it’s component parts. It’s truly amazing.

Take her recent outburst on illegal immigration as an example:

We have 12 million undocumented immigrants in this country that are part of the backbone of our economy and this is not only a reality but a necessity,” she said. “And that it would be harmful – the Republican solution that I’ve seen in the last three years is that we should just pack them all up and ship them back to their own countries and that in fact it should be a crime and we should arrest them all.

– Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D.-Fla.)
Chairwoman, Democratic National Committee

She’s quite right. The GOP does believe that illegal immigration is a crime and that illegal immigrants should be shipped back to their own countries after they served the appropriate prison sentences for their crimes, which often include identity theft and document fraud along with the crime of illegally entering the United States.

She’s quite right. We have approximately 12 million illegal immigrants in this country that are part of the backbone of our economy and this is not only a reality but a necessity if we are to continue to operate large segments of our economy in the manner that we’ve always been accustomed to.

Of course, most people would actually understand that any phrase with the adjective “illegal” in it would be, even discounting the concomitant infractions, criminal in nature. Apparently not the DNC’s chairwoman, Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz though. She seems to prefer to portray being shock at the Republicans wanting to protect our borders and enforce America’s laws.

That the DNC’s Chairwoman, representing the Democrat Party, has a problem with- and chooses to vilify the GOP for wanting to enforce American immigration laws is of only minor concern though. It’s to be expected; our culture is rife with phrases that explain the Dems’ support for illegal immigration – phrases such as, “Undocumented Democrat” and “D.O.A – Democrat On Arrival.”

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This, however, is a very small matter and, as a moral failing, pales beside Wasserman-Schultz’s greater evil, her support for human trafficking and de facto slavery.

It is a sad and shameful fact that segments of America’s economy, especially the agriculture, construction, manufacturing, and low-end service segments, are heavily based upon the use of a labor pool that is paid a mere pittance and worked in a fashion that no American would tolerate and that would be illegal if it were applied to Americans.

The average illegal immigrant, often working as much as 70 hours a week, makes just under $6000 per annum and has no benefits whatsoever. Nor do they have any practical recourse to abusive or unsafe working conditions. That is slavery in a very real sense, though few illegal immigrants are branded or collared.

I loath and despise illegal immigrants because of the crime, disease, and filth so many of them bring to my country, but that doesn’t mean I condone their enslavement in all but name.

That the DNC’s Chairwoman thinks that this is a necessary part of the backbone of our economy is beyond reprehensible and disgusting. I’m forced to wonder if the Democrat Party has, in last century and a half, moved as far from being “the Party of slavery” as we’ve been previously repeatedly told.

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Keep your eyes open. Travel light but load heavy, and always put another round in the enemy after they’re down.

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Freedom is always transitory for any People; it follows a historically well established cycle of rise and fall. It moves from bondage, to freedom and affluence, and back to bondage again.

The Fatal Sequence Known As The Tytler Cycle

Progression through the Fatal Sequence that leads to the death of all democracies a smooth and measured march towards entropy. It seems, if history is any judge, to happen in fits and starts with societies staying at one point then lurching forward again.

Interestingly, the Tytler Cycle was no part of Lord Woodhouselee, Alexander Fraser Tytler’s written works though it does perfectly fit them, especially his Universal History.

Where America is within the Tytler Cycle is open to some debate. This is, in no small part, because of a trend started in the latter half of the twentieth century to divide and fragment America for the dubious sake of cultural diversity. America being now more than one People is at multiple points in the cycle – but all are further along the path back to Bondage than Liberty –> Abundance.

Can we move backward along the path of the Tytler Cycle? I think it’s possible. Will we as a people do so? I doubt it; it doesn’t seem to be in human nature to do so.

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